July 2010

Content Creation, Number 1, Jobs, Facebook, Landing and Video. Saturday Mishmash!

Happy Saturday! Every Saturday I publish links to some of the things I’ve come across that might interest you. These are things that caught my attention this week. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click on them if you’re curious. I also include a picture I like. Outsourcing Content Creation [...]

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How To Skip Unpleasant Phone Calls

I was reading through some posts on Mashable this morning and came across this handy new service you’ve got to know about. It’s called Slydial and it’s free. It lets you dial a number and go straight to voicemail so you don’t have to actually speak to the person, but you can leave your message. [...]

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What Are YOUR Goals?

I’ve been getting calls from attorneys asking for advice. It’s fun to talk about the issues involved in growing a family law practice, and I enjoy the discussions. I have to be careful, however, not to jump to conclusions. It’s tempting for me to assume that everyone who calls me has goals like mine. That’s [...]

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What Is Document Assembly?

I asked the attendees at my Idaho State Bar talk about their use of document assembly products. Very few hands went up. If you aren’t using a document assembly product, you’re not alone. What is document assembly? It’s fancy fill-in-the-blank software. It allows you to create a template and fill in the variables with the [...]

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TechnoLawyer: The Biggest Impediment to Successful Law Firm Marketing

TechnoLawyer is running some columns I’ve written in its SmallLaw series. The website has some excellent writers (plus me) addressing small firm issues. TechnoLawyer makes the columns public a week after release on the TechnoLawyer blog. You can get the content a week earlier by subscribing to SmallLaw via e-mail. My most recent column came out yesterday. [...]

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What Should You Blog About?

You’d like to create a blog and post to it regularly. Maybe you already have a blog and you’re not posting to it very often. Lots of lawyers get stuck for ideas about content. Here’s the deal: you’ve got to think about your audience. Most of you are blogging for prospective clients, so think about [...]

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Sunday Funny: Who’s Representing Mel?

This one-minute video makes the best of an awful situation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bZ7dyi3Ynw&feature=player_embedded

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Tone, Triggers, Niches, New Business and Blogging. Saturday Again!

Happy Saturday! Every Saturday I publish links to some of the things I’ve come across that might interest you. These are things that caught my attention this week. I’m publishing these links without much comment so you’ll have to click on them if you’re curious. I also include a picture I like. ToneCheck Checks Your [...]

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